If every act has moral consequences, how can one justify deciding not to “get involved” without knowing the particular context?
I have given a context (Politics) and we know much about this class of contexts. Taking an outside view getting emotionally involved in these generally produces one of the worst kinds of bias. “Political” actions generally amount to nothing but naked power struggles that rarely acheive “what it says on the label”.
An apolitical mind is a better mind was my original statement. If you consider everything to be “politics” then this statement would read “a goalless or inactive mind is a better mind”, to be truly goalless may indeed be impossible while having a working brain and to be fully inactive is to be irrational. Clearly one then dosen’t have a something that could be called a “better mind” in any sense (unless you are negative utilitarian—Do no ill!).
If my use of “politics”, dosen’t match your own specific usage feel free to replace it with bjarndorf or some such word of your choosing. A-bjandorfian minds are better minds. There.
Non-invovlement with what exactly?
I have given a context (Politics) and we know much about this class of contexts. Taking an outside view getting emotionally involved in these generally produces one of the worst kinds of bias. “Political” actions generally amount to nothing but naked power struggles that rarely acheive “what it says on the label”.
An apolitical mind is a better mind was my original statement. If you consider everything to be “politics” then this statement would read “a goalless or inactive mind is a better mind”, to be truly goalless may indeed be impossible while having a working brain and to be fully inactive is to be irrational. Clearly one then dosen’t have a something that could be called a “better mind” in any sense (unless you are negative utilitarian—Do no ill!).
If my use of “politics”, dosen’t match your own specific usage feel free to replace it with bjarndorf or some such word of your choosing. A-bjandorfian minds are better minds. There.